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<blockquote data-quote="dogdinger" data-source="post: 197785" data-attributes="member: 9616"><p><strong>put it in perspective KC......</strong></p><p></p><p>Dont get me wrong, i am certainly not advocating anything with this post i simply want to put into perspective a few things. we as hunters strive to give our quarry a quick painless death, after all it is NOT about killing that we are out here. the act of killing a beautiful animal has given me many a thoughtful, tearful time. I remember walking up to a full curl bighorn ram that i had just made a perfect 500 + yd shot on....(after 21 days of hunting with a 45lb backpack on my back), and sitting down and balling my eyes out. to see the destruction that i have caused by sqeezing the trigger is sometimes enough to make an anti hunter out of the best of us......but....then i think about the death that nature would have given this same beautiful creature....think about the natural way....old, blind, rheumatic, hurtful joints, no teeth left to chew food, and more than likely eaten while still alive by a couple of coyotes.....the worst gut shot death is better than the best natural one....that episode should strengthen your resolve to be a better shot/make better judgements, but certainly not to stop being a hunter. we as hunters serve a needed role in the ecosystem......we have taken the place of predators in keeping game populations in balance.....we are in fact THE top predators....without us doing our job , all the animals out there would suffer the "natural' deaths i described above and would go through cycles of feast and famine every few years....dont beat yourself up over that one bad episode....use it as a learning experience and a teaching tool for when you have kids...AJ</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dogdinger, post: 197785, member: 9616"] [b]put it in perspective KC......[/b] Dont get me wrong, i am certainly not advocating anything with this post i simply want to put into perspective a few things. we as hunters strive to give our quarry a quick painless death, after all it is NOT about killing that we are out here. the act of killing a beautiful animal has given me many a thoughtful, tearful time. I remember walking up to a full curl bighorn ram that i had just made a perfect 500 + yd shot on....(after 21 days of hunting with a 45lb backpack on my back), and sitting down and balling my eyes out. to see the destruction that i have caused by sqeezing the trigger is sometimes enough to make an anti hunter out of the best of us......but....then i think about the death that nature would have given this same beautiful creature....think about the natural way....old, blind, rheumatic, hurtful joints, no teeth left to chew food, and more than likely eaten while still alive by a couple of coyotes.....the worst gut shot death is better than the best natural one....that episode should strengthen your resolve to be a better shot/make better judgements, but certainly not to stop being a hunter. we as hunters serve a needed role in the ecosystem......we have taken the place of predators in keeping game populations in balance.....we are in fact THE top predators....without us doing our job , all the animals out there would suffer the "natural' deaths i described above and would go through cycles of feast and famine every few years....dont beat yourself up over that one bad episode....use it as a learning experience and a teaching tool for when you have kids...AJ [/QUOTE]
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